Bug 1062783

Summary:	virt-manager cannot work remotely when adding physical drive to VM
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paul Wouters <pwouters>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	berrange, crobinso, virt-maint
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Description Paul Wouters 2014-02-08 00:21:34 UTC

Description of problem:

When running virt-manager on machine A and opening a connection to machine B, to add a VM on machine B, one cannot add a disk or partition (eg /dev/hde) because virt-manager does not allow "browse local" when connecting remotely. It also does not allow typing in "/dev/hde" for the disk image on the remote server.

Comment 1 Paul Wouters 2014-02-08 00:22:19 UTC

using ssh -X machineB and then running virt-manager locally works around the problem, but is terribly slow, even when machine A and machine B are on the same LAN.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2014-02-08 01:35:29 UTC

There is no way to make 'browse local' work over a remote connection. However, next version of virt-manager will try to use libvirt storage APIs to at least make typing in /dev/hde work.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 557107 ***